Existence theory for pseudo-symmetric solution to \(p\)-Laplacian differential equations involving derivative (Q554868)

The authors study the existence of one, three, or more positive pseudo-symmetric solutions for the boundary value problem \[ \begin{gathered} (\varphi_{p}(u'(t)))'+h(t)f(t,u(t),u'(t))=0,\;t \in [0,1],\\ u(0) =0,\;u(1) =u(\eta),\;\eta \in (0,1),\end{gathered} \] where \(\varphi_{p}\) is the \(p\)-Laplacian operator and \(h\) and \(f\) are pseudo-symmetric solutions about \(\eta\). The authors use the classical theorem of cone compressions and expansions of Krasnosel'skii and the Avery-Peterson fixed point theorem.